Michael Mayerfeld Bell Department of Community and Environmental Sociology • University of Wisconsin • 340C Agricultural Hall • 1450 Linden Drive • Madison, WI • 53706 • USA • +1-608-265-9930 • [email protected] • www.michaelmbell.net EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy Sociology/Environmental Studies, Yale University, 1992. Master of Philosophy Sociology/Environmental Studies, Yale University, 1989. Master of Forest Science School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 1982. Bachelor of Arts Earth Science, Wesleyan University, 1980. CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology (since 2013), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (since 2011), University of Wisconsin- Madison. Faculty Associate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies (since 2002), the Agroecology Program (since 2006), and the Religious Studies Program (since 2015), University of Wisconsin- Madison. PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006-2013. Associate Professor of Rural Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2006. Associate Professor of Sociology Iowa State University, 1999-2002. Assistant Professor of Sociology Iowa State University, 1993-1999. Visiting Lecturer or Acting Instructor Yale University, 1989-1993, part-time. Environmental Writer Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey, 1982-1985. curriculum vitae, Michael M. Bell, December, 2017 page 1 Field Geologist Cities Service Minerals, San Jose, Costa Rica, January to May, 1977 HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2016 Classical Album of the Year Madison Area Music Association MAMA Award for “Dance of the Plants,” ClassGrass Records; 2014. 2015 Rural Sociology Best Paper Rural Sociological Society award for “Linked and Situated: Grounded Knowledge,” by Loka Ashwood, Noelle Harden, Michael M. Bell, and William Bland, Rural Sociology, 2014, 79(4): 427–452; 2015. 2014 Classical Album of the Year Madison Area Music Association MAMA Award for “Germinations: A Bluegrass Symphony in D,” ClassGrass Records; 2014. 2014 Classical Song of the Year Madison Area Music Association MAMA Award for “March of the Cranes,” Movement 3 of “Germinations: A Bluegrass Symphony in D,” ClassGrass Records, co-written with Shauncey Ali; 2014. Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2013. Excellence in Rural Research Two papers chosen for inclusion in virtual special issues celebrating “excellence in rural research,” in honor of the first twenty-five years of Journal of Rural Studies: “The Two-ness of Rural Life and the Ends of Rural Scholarship,” and “Regulated Freedoms: The Market and the State, Agriculture and the Environment”; 2009. Visiting Professor Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, January through May, 2008. Outstanding Academic Title Awarded by the American Library Association for Farming for Us All, January, 2006. Honorary Fellow Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2006. Visiting Fellow Rural Sociology Chair Group, Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, June-July, 2005. curriculum vitae, Michael M. Bell, December, 2017 page 2 Visiting Professor Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, January to May, 2001. Emory S. Bogardus Teaching Award Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, 1997. Visiting Fellow Centre for Rural Economy, Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, August to December, 1996. Finalist, Robert Park Award Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, for Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village, 1996. Best Book Award Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, for Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village, 1995, (co-winner). Distinguished Dissertation Award Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1992. Guest Fellow in Yale College Saybrook College, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1991-1992. Fulbright Fellowship University College London, Department of Geography, London, England; Institute of International Education, New York, NY, 1987-1988. Predissertation Fellowship Oxford University, Department of Forestry; Council for European Studies, New York, NY, 1986. American Library Association Round Table Award American Library Association, for The Face of Connecticut: People, Geology, and the Land, 1986. curriculum vitae, Michael M. Bell, December, 2017 page 3 PUBLICATIONS Books Legun, Katharine, Julie Keller, Michael M. Bell, and Michael S. Carolan, eds. (Forthcoming, 2019). The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology. 2 volumes. Bell, Michael M. (Forthcoming, 2018.) City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Bell, Michael M. and Loka Ashwood. 2016. An Invitation to Environmental Sociology. 5th edition. Los Angeles and London: Sage. Previous English editions in 1998, 2004, 2009, and 2012 by Pine Forge Press, a division of Sage. Chinese edition published in 2010 by Peking University Press. Orne, Jason and Michael M. Bell. 2015. An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork. New York and London: Routledge. Bell, Michael M, with Andrew Abbott, Judith Blau, Diana Crane, Stacy Holman Jones, Shamus Kahn, Vanina Leschziner, John Levi Martin, Chris McRae, Marc W. Steinberg, and John Chappell Stowe. 2011. The Strange Music of Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology. Ann Goetting, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Campbell, Hugh; Michael M. Bell, and Margaret Finney, eds. 2006. Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life. Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press. Bell, Michael M.; with Donna Bauer, Sue Jarnagin, and Greg Peter. 2004. Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability. Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society. College Station, PA: Penn State University Press. Bell, Michael M. and Fredrick Hendricks, eds., with Azril Bacal. 2003. Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life. Research in Rural Sociology and Development book series. Amsterdam and New York: JAI/Elsevier. Bell, Michael M. and Michael Gardiner, editors. 1998. Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words. London: Sage. Bell, Michael M. 1994. Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bell, Michael M. 1985. The Face of Connecticut: People, Geology, and the Land. Hartford, CT: Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey. 4th printing, 1997. curriculum vitae, Michael M. Bell, December, 2017 page 4 Articles and Book Chapters Legun, Katharine A. and Michael M. Bell. (Forthcoming.) “The Environment,” in Investigating Social Problems, 2nd ed. A. Javier Travino, ed. Los Angeles and London: Sage. Liu, John Chung-En and Michael M. Bell. (Forthcoming.) “Environmental Sociology.” Chapter in Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Kathleen Korgen, ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Ashwood, Loka and Michael M. Bell. 2017. “Affect and Taste: Bourdieu, Traditional Music, and the Performance of Possibilities.” Sociolgia Ruralis 57(S1):622-640. Bell, Michael M. 2017. “Present Tense: Everyday Animism and the Politics of Possession,” pp. 117-127 in Microsociological Perspectives for Environmental Sociology, Bradley H. Brewster and Anthony J. Puddephatt, eds. London and New York: Routledge. Legun, Katharine and Michael M. Bell. 2016. “The Second Middle: Conducers and the Agrifood Economy,” Journal of Rural Studies 48:104-114. Ashwood, Loka and Michael M. Bell. 2016. “The Rural-Agriculture Power Play,” pp. 650-660 in International Handbook of Rural Studies, Lynda Cheshire, Mark Shucksmith & David L. Brown, eds. New York and London: Routledge. Stull, Valerie, Michael M. Bell, and Mpumelelo Ncwadi. 2016. “Environmental Apartheid: Eco- Health and Rural Marginalization in South Africa.” Journal of Rural Studies. 47(A): 369-380. Bell, Michael M. 2016. “In Your Face: Why Food Is Politics and Why We Are Finally Starting to Admit It,” pp. 189-195 in Biological Economics: Experimentation and the Politics of Agri-Food Frontiers, Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell, Nick Lewis, and Michael Carolan, eds. London and New York: Routledge and Earthscan. Keller, Julie, Sarah Lloyd, and Michael M. Bell. 2015. “Creating and Consuming the Heartland: Symbolic Boundaries in Representations of Femininity and Rurality in U.S. Magazines.” Journal of Rural Studies. 42:133–143. Lyon, Alexandra, Erin Silva, Jared Zystro, and Michael Bell. 2015. “Seed and Plant Breeding for Wisconsin’s Organic Vegetable Sector: Understanding Farmers’ Needs and Practices.” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 39:601-624. Jackson, Randall D., Lawrence G. Oates, Walter H. Schacht, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Daniel J. Undersander, Matthew A. Greenquist, Michael M. Bell and Claudio Gratton. 2015. “Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Cool-Season Pastures under Managed Grazing.” Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. Published on-line Feb 21, 2015. Legun, Katharine A. and Michael M. Bell. 2015. “The Environment,” pp. 367-393 in Investigating Social Problems,